Sr Java Engineer
in San Joseat PayPal

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Job Description

Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal’s 254 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

As part of the Risk Engineering team, this software engineering role will design, develop and maintain key risk management product features targeted towards availability performance and scalability of PayPal services. The role expects high standard of engineering excellence with some practical experience or at least strong conceptual understanding in building and maintaining internet-scale applications and services.

Be Part of the high performing PayPal Risk Product Development technologists to work passionately towards designing, developing and maintaining key risk management product features targeted towards availability performance and scalability of PayPal services.• This individual should be skilled in core java and have a sound understanding of design patterns and service oriented architectural principles.• This individual should be able to demonstrate craftsmanship by efficiently producing elegant, clean code.• The code should be well-commented, easy to maintain, and can be reused across a sub-system or feature; it is thoroughly tested with very few bugs, and is supported by unit tests.• The individual should be an active participant in the product design and code reviews for self and team and can competently review any aspect of their product or major sub-system.• The Individual should Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.• This individual should have experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.• Relevant experience of 5-7 years is expected.• Payments or financial industry experience would be huge plus• Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities • Play an active role in implementing and providing feedback on new processes • Provide technical guidance, assistance to other software engineers. • Adhere to release/project schedule and milestones. • Design core, backend software components that interact with databases and other services. • Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources. • Work with various cross functional teams like QA, Product and BU and come up with effective processes and solutions to solve business needs. • Ability to work in a team as well as independently and deliver on aggressive goals individually as well as a team

We're a purpose-driven company whose beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day. We hold ourselves to our One Team Behaviors which demand that we hold the highest ethical standards, to empower an open and diverse workplace, and strive to treat everyone who is touched by our business with dignity and respect. Our employees challenge the status quo, ask questions, and find solutions. We want to break down barriers to financial empowerment. Join us as we change the way the world defines financial freedom.